“Lawyers, business groups and the public are all being asked to submit their views on the balance of competences between the UK and the European Union on civil judicial cooperation (including family matters).”
Ministry of Justice, 16th May 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
Preston (formerly Moore) v President of the Methodist Conference [2013 UKSC 29; [2013] WLR (D) 179
“The basis for the rights and duties of an ordained minister of the Methodist Church were to be found in the constitutional provisions of the church and not in any arrangement of a kind which could amount to a contract. Therefore a Methodist minister was not an ’employee’ of the church for the purposes of section 230 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 and was not entitled to bring proceedings for unfair dismissal against the church.”
WLR Daily, 15th May 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) is interested in views on potential approaches to the application of the provisions in Part 2 of Schedule 13 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (CCA) relating to diversity considerations where candidates for judicial office are of equal merit. The provisions in the CCA clarify that the JAC’s duty to make selections ‘solely on merit’ (S63(2) Constitutional Reform Act 2005) does not prevent it from selecting one candidate over another for the purpose of increasing judicial diversity where there are two candidates of equal merit.”
Judicial Appointments Commission, 17th May 2013
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Traffic-light jumpers and speeding motorists are to be dealt with in special traffic courts in a bid to free up time for more serious cases, the government has announced.”
The Guardian, 17th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“One of the most contentious proposals in the Consultation Paper on the transforming legal aid is the removal of client choice in criminal cases. Under the proposals contracts for the provision of legal aid will be awarded to a limited number of firms in an area. The areas are similar to the existing CPS areas. The Green Paper anticipates that there will be four or five such providers in each area. Thus the county of Kent, for example, will have four or five providers in an area currently served by fifty or so legal aid firms. Each area will have a limited number providers that will offer it is argued economies of scale.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 16th May 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A druid who has lost his second legal bid to get human remains reburied at Stonehenge has said he will fight on.”
BBC News, 16th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Achilleas Kallakis, a conman who received a seven-year jail sentence in January, will spend a further four years behind bars after a British government lawyer called on senior judges for a tougher sentence.”
The Guardian, 16th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The official police watchdog made a series of errors in an investigation which cleared officers over the death of a man in custody, an independent report has found.”
The Guardian, 17th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ministers have said they are prepared to review whether civil partnerships should be extended to heterosexual couples but not until 2019.”
BBC News, 17th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Serious Fraud Office said on Thursday it is considering a criminal inquiry into alleged price fixing at BP and other oil companies already being investigated by European competition authorities.”
The Guardian, 16th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Terminally ill people could sign a ‘death contract’ allowing doctors to help them end their lives under new legal proposals.”
The Independent, 16th May 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A London council has had to pay out more than £1m in costs for wrongly assessing asylum seeker children as adults. These wrong decisions have condemned some children to homelessness, prevented them from going to school and led to some being unlawfully held in adult detention centres.”
The Guardian, 17th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
R. v Kallakis & Anor [2013] EWCA Crim 709 (16 May 2013)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
D & G Cars Ltd v Essex Police Authority [2013] EWCA Civ 514 (16 May 2013)
Fish & Fish Ltd v Sea Shepherd UK & Ors [2013] EWCA Civ 544 (16 May 2013)
Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) v O’Docherty & Anor [2013] EWCA Civ 518 (16 May 2013)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Thames Chambers Solicitors v Miah (Rev 1) [2013] EWHC 1245 (QB) (16 May 2013)
Cussens v Realreed Ltd [2013] EWHC 1229 (QB) (15 May 2013)
High Court (Chancery Division)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Soor & Anor v London Borough of Redbridge [2013] EWHC 1239 (Admin) (16 May 2013)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s Italian restaurant chain was fined £8,000 after a woman who told staff three times she was allergic to gluten was served wheat pasta.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for 11 years for raping an Indian woman who was treated like a ‘slave’ at his home.”
BBC News, 16th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Public bodies should consider whether freedom of information (FOI) requests are ‘likely to cause a disproportionate or unjustified level of disruption, irritation or distress’ when determining whether those requests are vexatious or not, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th May 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“A man who used his IT expertise to launch cyber-attacks on the websites of Oxford and Cambridge universities has been jailed for two years.”
The Guardian, 16th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“British hackers who were behind a series of high profile cyber-attacks in 2011 have been sentenced.”
BBC News, 16th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The European Union Act 2011 requires a referendum in the UK before we can appoint an EPP here; but other member states may do so without our participation. Why would they want to, and how would we work with such an official if he were to be appointed?”
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